5 Famous Drum Beats You're Probably Playing Wrong 

I love how Jared keeps it fun and doesn't mind admitting that he still struggles with stuff

The hardest part of the Rosanna Shuffle is actually making shuffle. It's not a hard drum beat, but it is quite difficult to make it groove.

This is something i was searching from a week... Thanx for making this video... You always provide the appropriate lessons whenever ever i needed.. from the day i 1st grab my stick till now,i have got every lil things from you... Thanks a lot jared...❤️❤️

Great lesson! Those beats sound pretty simple, but trying to play them is way harder than I thought!

I gotta say that kit is friggin' gorgeous.

The 5 songs you’ve picked ARE the songs that I have had the MOST fun TRYING to figure out over the many years that I have been playing. Great video!

Love your videos. I've learnt a lot from your dissection process in your lessons over the years. I continue to send aspiring drummers who have approached me to learn drums to watch drumeo. Your clear and realistic process in teaching is easily accessible and practical. Watching your intro on this video made me think of the first lesson all musicians learn (or should learn), which is to play through your mistakes. Practice is not being perfect, rather it's learning to keep playing to become perfect through practice. Mistakes are only mistakes if you let them be. I learnt that mindset when learning concert percussion from a highschool music teacher. It was the best lesson that increased my ability to learn technical rhythms, which was developed through feeling the rhythm while continuing to play (not being technical on mistakes, at first). That's how many of the best rhythms we know today were developed, before they were perfected. Through feeling it out, making mistakes, keeping playing, and turning it all into the grooves we love!

Jeff Porcaro's Groove.... Friend of mine was playing percussion with Toto back in the 90's and took me to a couple of Tour rehearsals. Had the amazing up close experience to watch Jeff play and hang out and chat about his playing for about an hour after rehearsal. So generous with his time. He loved talking about "Groove". One of the things Jeff does to make his playing groove is he makes his Rock and shuffle beats "Swing". Notice his snare and kick are EVER so slightly on the back edge of the beat at times. Listen to how he and his brother Mike play "way on the back edge" of the beat on the tune Pamela. After Jeff passed and Simon Philips took over I attended a rehearsal with Simon. Simon kicked the shit out of Rosanna. But no disrespect to Simon who is a Drum God in his own right, it didn't swing the same way as when Jeff played it. Nobody I know of could play farther on the back edge of the beat without dragging than Jeff Porcaro! Miss him dearly!

Jared you sound great and the way you break these grooves down is so easy. hardly any teachers have your finess in showing how to play these grooves BRAVO

Great job! You explain these beats so clearly. Thank you.

I love the added bloopers please keep that in every video. Nobody’s perfect.

Nice breakdown of the grooves. Thank you.

Always a pleasure to see someone whose not afraid to be human and show the work in progress. Very important for young drummers to see in order to keep trying to get it right!!!

"Don't worry about those ghost notes. They ain't nothin' but rebound!" -Bernard Purdie

Great lesson Jared. Many thanks. I am always amazed at my struggles. Work for a couple of days with frustration. Wake up the next morning and I've got it. Then I don't. Repeat till I have it. There are a few things though I will never be able to play. That's ok because I can get close. Cheers.

I think Cissy strut has an extra bass note on the second 16th of the third movement, which make the groove even more difficult, as it is adjacent to a bass note, and it's simultaneous to a hi hat hand note

Jared. this is a great video. I like your meat and potatoes approach to finding the straight forward solution toward playing the patterns that have evaded many of us for so long. Having played ALL these songs in performance, I really appreciate you "breaking the ceiling" on how to make these beats FEEL and SOUND right. After mastering the basic pattern, the thing that made each of these beats a winner was the FEEL they gave the music. I do appreciate your approach. As an experienced professional musician the most important part for me was how to approach each beat to achieve the sound and FEEL of the original. Thanks for all your inspiration!

Excellent approach with these instructions. Great teacher here...bravo!!!

Drumeo, dropping the knowledge daily!! Great channel.

LOVE his Honesty Jarod Is excellent teacher Thank you

Thanks Jared. Always great to watch your videos.

Jared, I appreciate your modesty and approach. That story about Ziggy is incredible. To think he knew who you are and reached out. What a legend, and definitely get him on.

This is nice! Love you, Drumeo, helping me improve my skills each day! Planning to join Drumeo Edge soon!

Neil Peart's ride cymbal pattern...RIP

Everyone in the room: These grooves are so difficult! Chick Webb's Ghost: Nails all grooves simultaneously as a polyrhythm, drops sticks.

Love the drum sound!!!

Awesome list -- these are great explanations of great choices. FYI, I found the best way to get the Roseanne shuffle to feel like a shuffle is to not treat the three count as though it were hat-hat-snare, but rather as a series of hat-snare-hat, like Porcaro says in his video. If you practice it as hat-snare-hat, hat-snare-hat slowly and gradually speed up, the timing of placing the grace notes is easier. As for 50 Ways, there ain't no easy way to get that one. . .

"You want to try to get as close to that [ feel of 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover ] as possible... if you're in a cover band, playing at weddings..." Sweet Baby Jesus, talk about an inappropriate song to play at a wedding!!! LOL LOL LOL. Thanks for that, Jared!!! BTW, I love my new Drumeo P4.

This is awesome! Thanks Jared!

You should turn this into a series, this was a very good instructional approach to each beat.

This is a great video, 5 fun parts to learn, tx!

I really like your preface Jared, there are some real words of wisdom. Thanks for another great lesson.

Your humbleness is great, but I think you're absolutely nailing these grooves better than you think.

So much fun to watch this....think i’m gonna grab a beer and watch it again..great job, Jared!👍🏼

Love DRUMEO! Thanks for these beats! They have been among my favorites for decades. You play them well, as an excellent drummer should. Please take another pass at Cissy Strut . What makes it challenging is the coordination between the hi-hat bass drum parts in the 2nd bar of the rhythm. Give it a listen. I was really looking to see how you were going to break that down for us. Well, Amas Omar Hakim wrote in my high school yearbook...Don't stop playin' keep on jammin!

Good info for a beginner and a good lesson. Thanks!

Wow! Beautiful job dude!

This is fascinating. Your suggestions Jared about feel and stretching notes, as well as the comments here about swing and placement of the note in the beat are giving me a lot to work with. The comment about being at the back of the beat got my attention. Phillips attacks the beat. Porcaro lays it on the back of the beat. Different feel. There's a song I play that only works if my foot is lazy. If I'm too crisp, too regimented, it just feels off. Then the other comment about intent and feel. Everything I saw in the video is true about dynamics, the sticking, the commitment to precision. So hard for me some days. But that feel makes sense to me, let’s me come around again and again. My guitarist friend sent me a meme that strong technical mastery of the fret board is essential for guitarists. But the real magic happens with the other hand. The touch, the pace, the emotion. Such a tease Jared about where the idea of musical conversation comes in. What if it's less about the Gadd level and more a reflection of Paul Simon/Steve Gadd setting the emotional scene. The end of each drum phrase is the period in a sentence. The narrator is getting this intriguing perspective from his lover. Interest, then reflection. Intrigue, then reflection. Really honey, there must be so many ways to do this. Then let it sink in. Place the note behind the lyric. Simon delivers the lyric slow, let the last tom go late. Same with the guitar or bass. Take the cue from the intent of the song, how the emotion is being driven by the experience the song invokes. Maybe the funk drummer came out of that moment that sometimes happens in jams when you're feeling sprightly and willing to get on top of the bass groove. What if Rosanne is driven by the brightness of waking up a year later to know you've survived losing the love of your life and spring still comes. That whole song is bright, upbeat, downright cheerful. Just the damn keyboard lead and barbershop lift. So the drums follow suit with the peppy shuffle up top, with Porcaros kick like Singing in the Rain. What if that back of the beat drags a little and stylistically makes the drum part, like Kelly drags the lyric. Maybe Jared you've brought me to the moment where we meet our fellow musicians and the soul of the song itself. And that's why some of these beats are hard. If I'm not feeling the moment, the intent, the heart, I'll never get it.

That ghost note after the accent is killer 😂

Great initiative Drumeo :) I've worked ( ie struggled/cursed/tried time and again/shedded) on the first four grooves. A slow-ish right hand forced me to play Funky Drummer two handed on the hihat, I might give another try now that my technique's gotten better. Poor double strokes with the right foot gave me quite some grief when shedding 50 ways and Rosanna. Maybe the balance issue should get a Drumeo segment on its own, it's one of those basic things that easily get overlooked.

Jared- I absolutely LOVE the gray stain shells with the black hardware. Wow!

These grooves look easier to play than they actually are. Thanks for breaking them down and showing us humility, Jared.

Very good! Thank you

Great to meet you at NAMM and I was fortunate enough to play "ain't nobody" with the bay area's Tony Saunders on bass. Great vid!

Great video thanx !!

Jared, you're the man. I just watched your independence video and this one popped up next. Great video!

I do music at a church in north Texas and regularly get asked about lessons. I teach some but I always refer them to you to keep pushing them to improve.

Love this lesson! I've worked on at least 3 of these at some point, and I wanna revisit them now. As a side note (and completely unrelated), I hope you guys can someday do a lesson with Taylor Hawkins and/or/preferably AND Dave Grohl

So well explained... I am gonna try the first example...

Thanks for showing us that even you have to work at some stuff Jared. I've actually been working on funk and ghosting lately and after seeing this, I don't feel like a complete loser anymore. Nicely done!

i’d love to see a video explaining the subtle differences between 1-The Purdy Shuffle, 2-The Rosanna Shuffle and 3-The Fool in the Rain shuffle

God loves to watch Jeff play. I end up playing that Rosanna shuffle as a paradiddle/double paradiddle rhythm.

hi bro, i trully appriciate your video and the way how you breakdown note per notes.. It really help us a lot how to play properly this famous beats!! But I have request and challenge to you, please make a demo video by Extreme song title HIP TODAY, in the adlib part

I love the beats u choosed to teach they r awesome

Love the video!

Cool stuff!!

Playing those classic iconic beat back to back is not easy, good job 👍

The big fills in Tom Sawyer by Rush are definitely a challenge to play correctly and well...

It’s missing another so difficult Toto’s grooves, like I Will Remember or Better World, cool vid :)

Jared Man you play very clean.🙏

Love the sound of the kick

This was so cool! I am not a drummer but wow loved this.

The Funky Drummer Beat is one I deal with a lot. I love to play older music that the original beats were on. One handed hi hat is important to work hard on and the transitions back and forth from ghost note to rim shot back to ghosts.

Great video, its good seeing some skilled drumming that isnt about 300 beats per minute... 👌😎👍

7:02 True. Roseanna's ghost notes come and go and most ppl over play them 👍. The beauty of the ghost note only at the end of the phrase during the intro is it gives the same feel as the opening fill. Genuis!

50 Ways is actually "easier" to get the feel on the HH with a traditional grip. It's funky matched... Gadd is THE MAN!

Come together - the Beatles everyone plays it wrong

Zigaboo "Ziggy" Modeliste is a member of The Meters... One of the greatest funk bands ever.

Thx for the lesson drumeo y can play all the grooves now so thx for thet

The Ain't Nobody groove was recorded in parts. Kick/snare, hihat, toms, cymbals. John explains this on his Master Session video (VHS).

Great video!

Very very very well done sir 👍💪

Stay transparent.. Love your honesty and dedication...

The SetUp you are Playing is soo beautiful *_*

you make a great teacher. apreciat'cha

You have made me very happy!!! You wanna know why? I can play this easily!!! NO problem, so I guess I'm not an intermediate drummer anymore!!!!!! Yea~!!!!!!!!

Love the kick drum sound

'Ain’t Nobody'- Digital Bath ;)

Great video! US Drag (Terry Bozzio) by Missing Persons is a tough one to nail.

Another difficult pocket beat to learn is "two princesses" the kick pattern along with the ghost notes. Is very tricky. As well as the intro fill " or signature fill " Been workn on it for months. But man it has opened up new patterns for me as a drummer!

I like the drumkit, especially the color on the toms

Good point I was listening to my band the 1st drummer quit so now I got to Drum where he left off you're right I can't be him so I have to create the same groove and the same power but my own way of playing the drums I agree this is really interesting thanks .punk an rock Drummer from North 131 Kirk Lee. aka corky... Rock on everybody... PS you can't always be the guy so you have to be yourself but still have that strong in the Pocket style.an power. That's what I'm doing now is learning the setlist and learning from the 1 st album recording is kind of strange thinking.. Putting my style into the band and kill it Perfectly..

i very much enjoyed this journey

For me grooving a "real" Texas Shuffle with the right hand doing 1/4 notes and left hand the shuffle (La Grange) is still a challenge. And learning Bonzo's Poor Tom groove was a biggie and open to so many variations, fun!

Learned about these at 15, mastered!

Jared your DRUMSET is freaking BEAUTIFUL🤘🖒🖒🖒👐👐

Thanks, Jared!

My struggles (which I've never worked on) straight 16" note on high hat kick and snare half time shuffle feel and the old 2/4 country feels (Elvis tunes )

Beat 5, digital bath, the Deftones

The rosanna shuffle is so difficult for me it's so hard I practiced it many times but I can't but thankss I've learned a lot

I've played for over 30 years, and the Rosanna shuffle is one of the most difficult grooves to play correctly!!

I wonder if he would break down " Jabo Starks" version of " Turn on your love light ' by Bobby " Blue " Bland ? its a beast to play correctly. Especially at the tempo he plays it. Its a double shuffle groove.

I learned the funky drummer differently. (Programming it into drum machines and DAWs, then playing that on a set). It was more kick kick snare, ghost/open hat twice, then back to the snare between two slower kicks than the start, and a final open hat before returning into the kick kick again on beat 1 and repeating. Instead of the ghost on the open hat (maybe just ahead of it), he also throws in a drill type roll on the snare sometimes.

Nice lesson.

I love playing the Ain’t nobody groove. I heard it was programmed on the Linn drum and JR had to learn how to play it himself after. Hence both grooves should have an extra hi hat that lands with the snare ( few programmers write how a drummer would lose one hi hat to play the snare). Except guys like Gadd who nearly always add a double LH HH to a hand to hand 16th beat.

really enjoyed this and i'm not a drummer, love watching good drummers as it's well beyond me - i'll stick to the guitar

Paul Riddle's samba type groove on Marshall Tucker's "This Old Cowboy" has always been a tough one to nail down for me. Hard to hear everything he's playing and there sounds like there is a lot going on.

What Paiste hats are those? they sound freaking incredible.

Rosanna groove is the one I've tried to learn for a long time. Never gotten it down. So I gave it up. The other grooves haven't really intrested me.

I’ve never listened to much of JR Robinsons work, so I can’t say much on his work. That aside, Zig was a huge influence. Cissy strut is one of my favorite tunes to play. I’m learning 50 ways right now. Rosanna has kicked my ass for years now. And Clyde is a legendary player that doesn’t get enough credit! However, like you said, the feel of these tunes is what’s most important.